Electric Light Quotes

“During the four days of the storm, I became accustomed to the soft light of lamps and candles and grew to like it. When the power came on again, I discovered that I was actually disappointed. The electric lights seemed cold and impersonal; they revealed too much.”
― Damon Knight, One Side Laughing: Stories Unlike Other Stories

“Do you remember the long orphanage of the train stations

We crossed cities that turn-tabled all day

And vomited at night the sunshine of the day ("The Voyager")”
― Pierre Albert-Birot, The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology

“With the opening of the door, and the installation of electric light in the cupboard, the skeletons had crumbled into dust.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“Dr. John Nash Ott had discovered by 1987 that glass, artificial light sources, electricity and electronic systems were having extensive detrimental effects on plants, animals and humans.”
― Steven Magee

“The Moon is not an electric light bulb that you can change with another!”
― Avijeet Das